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<blockquote data-quote="sacraig" data-source="post: 1690264" data-attributes="member: 586845"><p>1. We've won 63%. That isn't 2/3. That's just as close to 3/5 as it is to 2/3. I would not call that dominance.</p><p></p><p>2. Last night's game is an anomaly. Mizzou is awful this year <strong>and </strong>they had a bowl game at the exact same time. Their fans had to pick and most picked the bowl game given how awful their basketball team is right now. Mizzou fans care. Read their message boards (if you can stomach the format). They just care this year less than they do about football given the circumstances. I can't blame them.</p><p></p><p>3. That's what I already said, but in this era of the transfer portal, a team can get good again very quickly, especially if they have a compelling coaching hire. It wasn't long ago that they had Mike Anderson, who had them playing at a very high level before bolting for Arkansas. Remember, Underwood took us from the nadir of the Groce years to a #1 tournament seed in 4 years.</p><p></p><p>4. There were an awful lot of people on that board clearly watching, too. BTN doesn't have the reach of ESPN since it is on higher tiers of many cable providers rather than the base package, but it is still available to most people, and if they happen to pay for the higher tiers because they wanted a different sports network, they likely have it even if they don't use it. The game was not on SEC Network because I think the rights alternate each year unless it gets picked up nationally. Even then, the rights may alternate between ESPN and Fox (co-owners of the SEC Network and BTN respectively). You'd have to check on that, though. I'm not sure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sacraig, post: 1690264, member: 586845"] 1. We've won 63%. That isn't 2/3. That's just as close to 3/5 as it is to 2/3. I would not call that dominance. 2. Last night's game is an anomaly. Mizzou is awful this year [B]and [/B]they had a bowl game at the exact same time. Their fans had to pick and most picked the bowl game given how awful their basketball team is right now. Mizzou fans care. Read their message boards (if you can stomach the format). They just care this year less than they do about football given the circumstances. I can't blame them. 3. That's what I already said, but in this era of the transfer portal, a team can get good again very quickly, especially if they have a compelling coaching hire. It wasn't long ago that they had Mike Anderson, who had them playing at a very high level before bolting for Arkansas. Remember, Underwood took us from the nadir of the Groce years to a #1 tournament seed in 4 years. 4. There were an awful lot of people on that board clearly watching, too. BTN doesn't have the reach of ESPN since it is on higher tiers of many cable providers rather than the base package, but it is still available to most people, and if they happen to pay for the higher tiers because they wanted a different sports network, they likely have it even if they don't use it. The game was not on SEC Network because I think the rights alternate each year unless it gets picked up nationally. Even then, the rights may alternate between ESPN and Fox (co-owners of the SEC Network and BTN respectively). You'd have to check on that, though. I'm not sure. [/QUOTE]
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